Professor Gill Reeves
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Gill Reeves
BSc MSc PhD
Valerie Beral Professor of Epidemiology and Director, Cancer Epidemiology Unit
Gillian Reeves is the Valerie Beral Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit.
She is co-principal investigator of the Million Women Study, a very large UK cohort study of women’s health, and sits on the steering committee for several international collaborations including the Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer, the Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer Collaborative Group, and the Collaborative Group on Epidemiological Studies of Ovarian Cancer.
Gillian trained originally as a statistician and completed a PhD in statistics before becoming interested in epidemiology. Her main research interests are the roles of hormonal and other risk factors in the development of female cancers. She is particularly interested in risk factors and patterns of survival for molecular subtypes of breast cancer.
Recent publications
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Invitation for FOBt screening and colorectal cancer mortality: A prospective analysis in the Million Women Study cohort.
Journal article
Blanks RG. et al, (2025), Int J Cancer
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Diet-wide analyses for risk of colorectal cancer: prospective study of 12,251 incident cases among 542,778 women in the UK.
Journal article
Papier K. et al, (2025), Nat Commun, 16
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Response: Rheumatoid arthritis and cancer risk in the Million Women Study.
Other
Yang TO. et al, (2024), Int J Epidemiol, 53
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A comparative analysis of risk factor associations with interval and screen-detected breast cancers: A large UK prospective study.
Journal article
Barnes I. et al, (2024), Int J Cancer, 155, 979 - 987
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Methods and participant characteristics in the Cancer Risk in Vegetarians Consortium: a cross-sectional analysis across 11 prospective studies.
Journal article
Dunneram Y. et al, (2024), BMC Public Health, 24